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Calif. city fights parking woes with free bus passes

BERKELEY, Calif. — The Oakland Tribune reported that the city is offering 1,000 free AC Transit passes, increasing downtown street parking rates and making more car share services available in an effort to mitigate its parking problem and reduce greenhouse gases.

The passes will go to employees of downtown businesses as an incentive to get them to stop driving to work and taking up street parking. For the full story, click here.

Tier One modernizes 300 stops along two of GRTC’s busiest routes with each stop receiving upgrades that include new flags with clearly visible route and bus stop numbers as well as eye-level, easy-to-use printed schedule and map information.

The 8.3-mile route, with a proposed 27 stops, would replace the Capital Area Transportation Authority’s current Route 1 from downtown Lansing to the Meridian Mall. Results from the plan’s environmental assessment study are expected to be shared at a public hearing this fall.